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steephie22 (182 D(S))
10 Sep 13 UTC
Constitutional dictatorship
Might sound crazy, but try to hear me out.
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Frank (100 D)
13 Sep 13 UTC
Congrats to Jimbozig!
Our old friend is now a mod on Vdip. Congrats buddy!
http://­vdiplomacy.net/­forum.php?viewthread=­47256#47256
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Chrononium (100 D(B))
12 Sep 13 UTC
Understanding the resolution of a move in a Modern Diplomacy II game
Link to the game in question --> http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=124999
Looking at the large map, why did A Bulgaria-Rumania fail? The map shows the support from the Western Black Sea as cut, but there is nothing cutting it
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jmo1121109 (3812 D)
11 Sep 13 UTC
Obama's Speech
Obama has asked Congress to delay a military strike vote until the US can see if Syria will agree to relinquish chemical weapons, thoughts?

And did anyone else catch this little gem? "Neither Assad or his allies have any interest in escalation that would lead to his demise"
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hecks (164 D)
12 Sep 13 UTC
Breaking Bad Spinoff
I don't watch the series, but a lot of friends do, and I just saw that AMC has given the green light to a Saul Goodman spinoff series.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/09/11/better_call_saul_breaking_bad_spinoff_with_saul_goodman_is_probably_happening.html
Thoughts?
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
12 Sep 13 UTC
Alarming News...
...that the media isn't really reporting. Can't imagine that they're, oh, I don't know, not supposed to report it or something...
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
12 Sep 13 UTC
From a soldier at Ft. Hood:

"I have been able to verify something extremely troubling in the past 12 hours. A close and verifiable source contacted me to lament the deployment of a friend from Ft. Hood to Egypt, where this particular soldier will be for the next nine months. We have no military base in Egypt, so we’re all trying to understand the assignment and wonder if he and the other 400 soldiers are living in a tent in the desert, and if they are, how do they receive supplies, from everything to food, water, ammunition, and fuel to conduct whatever mission they are to fulfill, for I cannot imagine a C-140 being allowed to land at Cairo International.

The following information has been sourced thoroughly. This particular soldier said that while he was not really thrilled about the assignment to Egypt, it was better than the soldiers that remained at the military base BECAUSE THEY HAD JUST RECEIVED THEIR DEPLOYMENT ORDERS TO GO TO SYRIA. That certainly contradicts the posturing and false reassurances and table-pounding of Obama and Kerry, does it not?

Of course, credibility should never enter the discussion when talking about this president. If frogs get nourishment from eating flies, this pathologically dysfunctional misfit gets his lifeblood from telling lies. It is the manner in which he is genetically coded and been brainwashed to operate.

The courteous words chosen by the media due to the vomit coming from the State Department is that the people involved in the civil war with Assad in Syria are “rebels” and “the opposition”, when in fact it’s a collection of warring, tribal jihadists composed of Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaeda, Ansar al-Sharia, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and the Muslim Brotherhood, remember them? They’re the group the Obama administration enabled to take over Libya and Egypt. To put it tamely, just because they’re all radical Islamic groups does not mean they all get along.

Clearly, the gun running operation CIA operative (NOT Ambassador) Christopher Stevens oversaw out of the pseudo-embassy in Benghazi was funneling guns to the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, which drew the ire of Ansar al-Sharia, which bears responsibility for the Benghazi attacks. Clearly it is the jihadist group of his choice, as Obama tried his hand at yet another government-overthrow. Now it becomes clearer why Susan Rice was sent out to lie to the press with an elementary school alibi, why Hillary Clinton screeched at a Congressional oversight committee, and why the surviving operatives of the embassy attack have been placed under deep cover and from whom we will never hear. The administration was funding yet another proxy war with a poorly conceived operation and it blew up in its face.
Obama and Kerry have operated under the misconception that Americans are too ignorant to realize other, sophisticated G-7 countries have intelligence gathering techniques that rival or exceed ours, and that is why the likes of Great Britain, Russia, Israel, and Germany, among others, summarily dismissed his intentions to attack Syria at the G-20 Summit in Russia last week. In fact, Germany’s Der Spiegel just released copies of certain intelligence intercepts this morning proving the Assad did NOT authorize the use of chemical weapons and in fact was strongly opposed to doing so. Its intelligence gathering clearly shows that the use of nerve gas was by one of the rag-tag rebel groups, instead. Gee, I can’t imagine the Muslim Brotherhood resorting to such barbaric techniques, can you?

Watching the Obama administration is like watching the mini-car pull into the center ring at the circus, and out comes one clown, after another, after another, after another.

Putin gains huge political capital for seizing on Kerry’s loose tongue, Kerry inadvertently presented an opening against his bosses wishes for military action, and Obama comes across as a more disorganized and weak president, not only domestically, but equally if not more damaging, internationally as well.

And don’t forget: the man who lied about gun running to the Mexican cartels, IRS targeting, the contents of the health care bill, NSA eavesdropping, is the same psychopath that assured Americans there would be “no boots on the ground”, and that it will be a very small, strategic attack.

Why, then, do soldiers at Ft. Hood already have in hand their deployment assignments to go to Syria?"
Gunfighter06 (224 D)
12 Sep 13 UTC
Source?
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
12 Sep 13 UTC
http://mychal-massie.com/premium/us-troops-receive-orders-to-deploy-to-syria/

Crazy guy and I hope he's just a fat liar.
source: ass
Maniac (189 D(B))
12 Sep 13 UTC
Bo - can you back up the one line I assume you wrote: "From a soldier at Ft. Hood:"

Gunfighter06 (224 D)
12 Sep 13 UTC
What kind of soldier leaks information about secret AND current deployments? If this is information is true and the soldier leaked it, people could die.

Nah, it doesn't fit. Sorry bo_sox, but I'm calling BS.
NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
12 Sep 13 UTC
It saddens me when I see a leader who looks for political solutions to problems as weak.
War is not an end to a problem ..... it's the start.
Peace is what you call it at the end.
I can completely appreciate a leader who does not want to rush to war, if only they were doing more to rush to peace though.
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
12 Sep 13 UTC
Hopefully. I love being wrong sometimes, Gun.

Maniac, I'm going by what's written in the article. I posted what he wrote.
SYnapse (0 DX)
12 Sep 13 UTC
Source: some guy's blog
Maniac (189 D(B))
12 Sep 13 UTC
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@Bo - read the article again. "A close and verifiable source contacted me to lament the deployment of a friend from Ft. Hood to Egypt, where this particular soldier will be for the next nine months."

The source could a school teacher for all we know.

So we now have the chinese whispers chain ...

Bo Sox - who added in (incorrectly) that source was a soldier
Blogger - who may have something wrong
relaible source who may be a school treacher
reliable source's friend who isn't going to syria
reliable source's friend's friend who has been deployed to syria.

I like my info a bit closer to the start of the chain. Or I want the pentagon to deny it before I start believing it could be true.
krellin (80 DX)
12 Sep 13 UTC
Good lord...use google...back in June we were deploying troops to Egypt.

As for Syria, *highly* doubtful, and no evidence, and Bo's link is broken, and there is no way a soldier posts that unless he's looking for a court martial anyway
krellin (80 DX)
12 Sep 13 UTC
US / CIA delivering weapons to Syria...so presumably US military are involved in this transportation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-begins-weapons-delivery-to-syrian-rebels/2013/09/11/9fcf2ed8-1b0c-11e3-a628-7e6dde8f889d_story.html
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
12 Sep 13 UTC
The link is broken. Probably means it was bullshit. We can all sleep peacefully now (but watch out for the monsters in the Pentagon under your bed).
LordKeynes (100 D)
12 Sep 13 UTC
The US is part of a peace keeping mission in the sinai peninsula. Maybe you should stop reading right wing conspiracy sites.
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
12 Sep 13 UTC
Lol.. US and peacekeeping mission don't go together.

And I read diverse political sites and blogs. I hardly know which are which unless I look at the tagline.
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
12 Sep 13 UTC
Yes Maniac, bad wording.. my fault.
LordKeynes (100 D)
12 Sep 13 UTC
Ah yes the evil americans....


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Maniac (189 D(B))
12 Sep 13 UTC
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I'm in the News
Paperazzi took a sneaky pic just as I got out of the bath, must have used a telly-photo lens the swines

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24040130
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Yellowjacket (835 D(B))
12 Sep 13 UTC
Putin on American foreign policy in Syria.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-caution-from-russia-on-syria.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=4&
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Yellowjacket (835 D(B))
11 Sep 13 UTC
Answer me this
Why is satire never used by the religious against the nonreligious? Are the faithful just taking the high road, or is it, as I suspect, that satire can only be used to poke fun at the inherently ridiculous?
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krellin (80 DX)
11 Sep 13 UTC
Because Russia Likes the Med Too...
http://rt.com/news/russia-moskva-cruiser-mediterranean-720/
THIS is why we need to stay the fuck out of Syria and let a civil war be a civil war. They are ALL bad actors in Syria...let 'em kill each other off... :P
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
09 Sep 13 UTC
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finally, not talking about Syria...
"If conservatives truly want to reduce the number of abortions, they should WANT to mandate comprehensive sex education in schools. They should also work to make contraception less expensive and more accessible instead of waging war against it. "
www.addictinginfo.org/2013/09/07/us-teen-pregnancy-rate-drops-due-to-contraception-access-remains-high-in-abstinence-only-red-states/
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Tolstoy (1962 D)
12 Sep 13 UTC
For those too young to remember what 9/11 was like
You should listen to this radio broadcast from that day:
http://www.kfiam640.com/pages/billhandel.html?article=11643313
(news of the attack starts at the 6AM news cast - you can skip the first hour)
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VirtualBob (209 D)
04 Sep 13 UTC
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Go4it Post-game Thread gameID=125305
This is the game started in this thread: http://www.webdiplomacy.net/forum.php?viewthread=1045845#1045845
Anon participants in this "high quality no CD" gunboat game were NigeeBaby, SpeakerToAliens, pjmansfield, Siddhartha, OCCASVS, AlexNesta and myself. See below.

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Steelmaster (0 DX)
10 Sep 13 UTC
Points
I lost 30 D without any explanation. I'm very surprised! Who can say me what I should do? I need some to contact, na email or something...
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TheMinisterOfWar (553 D)
10 Sep 13 UTC
There is probably a good reason
But why oh why can't I just click on links rather than copy-paste-new-tab them?
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
11 Sep 13 UTC
Since religious people can't use satire...
Answer me this:

How did Jesus find Simon, Peter, James, John, Andrew, and Thomas if he was in the Middle East?
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President Eden (2750 D)
11 Sep 13 UTC
In case anyone forgot, here's an inspiring video to commemorate today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWBhP0EQ1lA
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Draugnar (0 DX)
09 Sep 13 UTC
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We fund the site for several more years and this is the shit you all come up with?
Jesus Fucking Christ! You fucktards need to get a fucking life.

Mujus: This isn't a religion forum. Any thread you start hereis liable to get attacked by Nigee or YJ.
Lando: This is the wild wild west of forums. If someone wants to attack Mujus for being a fucking whiny cry baby bitch, so be it.
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trip (696 D(B))
11 Sep 13 UTC
Gunboat
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SYnapse (0 DX)
11 Sep 13 UTC
My friend's blog post
http://marshalsoult.wordpress.com/

Semi-diplo related. I'm sure he'd like critique or whatever
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taos (281 D)
10 Sep 13 UTC
100 games
I played 100 games
Congratulations, thanks
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NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
11 Sep 13 UTC
Rape - very popular in Asia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24021573

Maybe it's cultural .....
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achillies27 (100 D)
10 Sep 13 UTC
League of Legends
Anyone else here play?
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twinsnation (503 D(B))
11 Sep 13 UTC
Cheating
How do you report a possible cheat, a game with no messages and two players are working like they have an alliance?
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ckroberts (3548 D)
10 Sep 13 UTC
Another game!
Players needed!
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krellin (80 DX)
10 Sep 13 UTC
Twerking....Dwarfs?
...and the Miley Cyrus spankings he loves...
I love Miley Cyrus...*sticking* to the media, and firing up their feigned outrage. YOU GO GIRL!!!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2415843/Miley-Cyrus-spanks-twerking-dwarf-performing-We-Cant-Stop-German-TV.html
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iscarion (382 D)
10 Sep 13 UTC
Messages lost ?
Hi, some players in my game pretend that some messages are not received by the other power. Is it a documented problem or do they badly do something ?
thanks !

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Al Swearengen (0 DX)
24 Aug 13 UTC
I'm starting a video game
I'm starting a new indie video game. It's going to be a text MUD. Anyone interested in helping? And yes, I have done this before.

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MaryAnne (185 D)
10 Sep 13 UTC
Dip board game
I just want some advice on which version of the board game is recommended. Preferably one with actual armies and fleets rather than blocks of wood.
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
06 Sep 13 UTC
A Solution in Syria
The object of most people, at least those posting on this site, about the war is as simple as averting an international war.

Here's a new one: http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/29/diplomacy-with-iran-key-to-ending-syria-war/
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